Silot Bay
| Silot Bay | ||
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| Waters | Lake Camotes | |
| Land mass | Cebu | |
| Geographical location | 10 ° 23 '16 " N , 123 ° 59' 25" E | |
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| surface | 1 km² | |
| Medium water depth | 5 m | |
| Islands | 2 | |
| Tributaries | local streams | |
The silot Bay is a shallow bay in the east of the island of Cebu in the Philippines , which is almost completely surrounded by land. It has an elliptical shape and is located in the municipality of Liloan , covers an area of 100 hectares and has an average depth of five meters. The bay is a lagoon that is connected to the Camotes Sea by a 20 meter wide channel. Their water flows to the lagoon from the sea, smaller streams supply the lagoon with fresh water. The water is called brackish water with a high nutrient content and described with a salinity of 25 to 32 ppt.
Two smaller, flat islands in the lagoon and are surrounded by a diverse flora , which are dominated by the mangrove species Sonneratia caeseolaris , Avicennia officinalis , Bruguiera conjugata , Ceriops roxbughiana and the Lumnitzera racemosa . The aqua vegetation was dominated by five types of algae. The Cocos nucifera , Pandanus tectorium , Leucaena glauca grow in the wider shore zone.
Some parts of the lagoon are occupied by aquaculture . It is described as very fishy, but the earlier fishing has now been banned by the local administration. The San Carlos University from Cebu City operates a small research station in the lagoon. For tourist purposes, a wooden bridge was built over parts of the lagoon and an 800-meter-long zip line , known in Austria as the guerrilla slide , takes the adventurous across the open water surface of the lagoon.
The region around the lagoon has a tropical, humid climate with no pronounced dry season . The driest months are November to May, the rest of the year there is sometimes heavy rainfall.